6 Cool Interactive Google Doodles

By now, you’ve probably seen some of the cool Google Doodles – those logos at the top of the Google search page that replace the standard Google logo from time to time. Those logos stick around for a day or so, and then are seemingly lost forever. Except they aren’t. You can find a complete list of Google logos on the Google logo archive page. The archive page has one shortcoming, though. Some Google logos were interactive, and on the archive page they are presented as static images, with no way to use the interactive elements. With a bit of digging (i.e. Google searching), though, you can locate some of the interactive logos. Here are six of them.

To commemorate the 160th anniversary of the first World’s Fair, Google rolled out this logo. Your cursor turns into a magnificying glass, allowing you to see items in the logo that you otherwise can’t, such as a spinning woman, and birds in the tree.

Appealing to the inner geek in all of us, the Jules Verne logo allows you to control Captain Nemo’s submarine, Nautilus. You look out the portholes, and pull and move a lever to ascend, descend, and move left and right.

If you’re over 40, you remember Pac-Man. The Google Pac-Man logo doubles as a mini version of game, allowing you to use your keyboard to control Pac-Man. This Google logo was originally created for the game’s 30th anniversary on May 22, 2010.

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Few months ago i was looking for one about… Dali, i believe, and got to that logo archive page. God, that’s long! Kept hitting Next for about 10 minutes before i got bored and realized i’m never going to find it like that.

I don’t know if you saw Google’s bids on the Nortel patents, but they bid all sorts of crazy numbers, most of which had significance to mathematicians, or were tied to something else, like the distance to the sun.

Tita Buds says:

The google logo changes have become a fun way for millions of people to learn bits of history that would otherwise have been overlooked. Of course, I’m writing this comment only after spending 5 minutes playing Pac-Man. :) Thanks, Evan.